Ridin’ gators for haters with Diesel & Dixie

Oh, the allure of the open road: long drives through the Arkansas countryside, karaoke stops in North Carolina, Ruffles for breakfast. Over the last few weeks, local band We Were Wolves has been living that dream, touring the country with Austin rock band Diesel & Dixie.

Both bands’ road exploits have been easily monitored by anyone with a Twitter account and this tour — the longest yet for both bands — looks like it’s been full of filty, dirty rock ‘n roll excellence.

Thursday night, the bands return to Beaumont to throw one more Southeast Texas blowout on the aptly named “Ridin’ Gators for Haters” tour. I talked to the Boar Lord, vocalist for Diesel & Dixie, by email as the band made its way — in a most hungover fashion, I’m sure — to Atlanta for a show.

Q How’s the tour going?
A The tour is going swimmingly so far. We — having come but barely halfway and experiencing what toils, excitements, and frustrations such a campaign’s swell could crash upon us — have remained vivified at the acknowledgement that such dreams can be attained and that none of us have but once cast our hand at another’s plow for no result.

In other words, we don’t have to work a lame job for some Lamecorp that only sees us as a way to make them money.

Q Any memorable Ridin’ Gators for Haters tour stories? A Tim Allen re-tweeted a Wolves tweet about riding in their truck. Other than that, there are too many stories to count!

Q What is it that makes Diesel & Dixie and We Were Wolves a good fit for touring together? A We have a general rapport of having a good time and being good to each other. That’s what drew us to each other from the first time we randomly played together in West Texas.

Q How would you describe your band’s sound to anyone who hadn’t heard you before? A If they ask us in person, they are liable to get an unconventional auditory response. However, the usual descriptors used are, “crazy, hard, fast, heavy southern rock blues.”

I sometimes use scale comparisons such as “the music sounds somewhere in between Led Zeppelin and Charlie Daniels with vocals somewhere between Fergie and Jesus.”